Key: B minor
Verse 1
Betty
Carson.
Ballad singing's in my blood. I come
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from a long line of singers
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whose songs have been running
down my family for generations.
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Strong are the roots and
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the branch of the tree.
Hidden
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Away is the one silver key lead
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ing to unopened rooms
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Oh, women of earth, wind, and flame
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Born under changing skies
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Oh, common in blood and in name
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With stories and songs in their eyes
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My ancestors came out of
Ireland
Carrying home in their hearts
They crossed that wild
Atlantic
Stepped off their boats
And made their way here
Into the
Appalachian
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Dark as the ink on the pages of white
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Dark as the sky at the time
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Deep as the well in your mind
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Oh, wo men of water and air
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Oh, in song and in story they share
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Future and past in their eyes
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The
Scots -Irish brought with them
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Have been kept alive here in these hills
Passed down through the years
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One person to the next.
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Down the line the blood runs red
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Down the line the blood runs red
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Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
Down the line the blood runs hot
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Down the line the blood runs hot
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Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
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To weather the storms every day
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When you know they'll return again
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Oh, to go when your
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God says to stay
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Oh, wo men of earth,
Born under changing skies
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Oh, coming in from a new day
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Stories and songs in their eyes
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Strong are the roots and the
Leading to unopened rooms.
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